Public displays of affection?

[Nebulous]

What do you think of public displays of affection?

Do you think people should do that in private?

What is over the line? What is acceptable?

Does seeing gay/lesbian public displays of affection bother you more than when straight people do it?

 

[Jazzy]

I don't mind public displays of affection as long as it is sensible and the people involved remember that they are in public. I think a quick hug, quick kiss, or holding hands in public is fine. However, there should be no French kissing or groping each other. Save that crap for when you're in private. This goes for all people.

 

[DrLeftover]

In a way, this too was a "public display of affection".....

“When she went across the stage I just called her name out. ‘Lakaydra’. Just like that,” Ursula Miller explained to WREG what she shouted to her niece at the ceremony.

The graduation ceremony was held at Northwest Mississippi Community College, where police said the superintendent asked the crowd not to scream, and to instead hold their applause until every graduate crossed the stage. If unable to do so, cheering individuals were informed they would have to leave the ceremony.

But papers would soon arrive to the cheering family members threatening to throw them in jail.

“A week or two later, I was served with some papers,” Miller told WREG.

Superintendent Jay Foster filed “disturbing the peace” charges against the people who yelled at the ceremony. Arrest warrants were issued with a possible $500 bond that the family members say is ridiculous. Foster declined to do an on-camera interview with WREG but vowed to maintain order at the school’s graduation ceremonies.

“It’s crazy,” Henry Walker said. “The fact that I might have to bond out of jail, pay court costs, or a $500 fine for expressing my love, it’s ridiculous man. It’s ridiculous…Okay, I can understand they can escort me out of the graduation, but to say they going to put me in jail for it. What else are they allowed to do?”

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2015/06...people-who-cheered-at-high-school-graduation/

 

[Smiley]

I don't mind public displays of affection as long as it is sensible and the people involved remember that they are in public. I think a quick hug, quick kiss, or holding hands in public is fine. However, there should be no French kissing or groping each other. Save that crap for when you're in private. This goes for all people.

I believe this place has an appropriate smiley (not me ) that fits perfectly here:

Amirite?

 

[DrLeftover]

So I'll comment On Topic.

My family was out to dinner a week or so ago down south (Gulf Coast near Biloxi), an obviously lesbian couple were at a nearby table.

They held hands while waiting for their food, and had a pleasant chat.

NOBODY seemed to mind.

Sometime last year, we were out in a major university city with a different group of family members, when a gay male couple were at a table on the other side of the room. They made a show out of it, kissing and groping and so on, and doing so loudly.

The difference in behavior is the point.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

What do you think of public displays of affection?

Don't mind it if it is decent enough so children's eyes do not need to be covered.

Do you think people should do that in private?

Again depends on what level of display of affection they are doing.

What is over the line?

Personally I do not want to see some long drawn out kiss with groping. Is it over the line probably very much so, but as long as they are not getting naked and having sex in public I may not like it but I do not want to see the law involved.

Does seeing gay/lesbian public displays of affection bother you more than when straight people do it?

Holding hands and just enjoying each others company no it does not. But if they started kissing yes it does. Not because I dislike gay people just that I am a heterosexual man and the idea personally doing such a thing is not something natural for me personally. But just like a man and woman kissing long term in public I may not like it but I do not think anyone should force them to stop.

 

[Lizzy]

As long as they're not repeating a scene from some porn, I'm OK with it.

 

[MrDawn]

I've done PDA before with girls that I dated. So I assume I don't have a problem with it. But apparently where I live. A lot of people don't like it.